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Barbara Shirvis's avatar

UGH so complicated. I just want simple tables.... this is too many steps for an old person.

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Nikita Sokolsky's avatar

Let me know if you need help figuring this out, happy to record a little demo video if that helps.

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Arnav M's avatar

This might not be the solution you're looking for, but it's possible to insert tables in the form of LaTex. Unfortunately only built-in packages seem to work, I couldn't get "table" or "tabular" so you're very limited in terms of formatting.

Example:

\begin{array}{c c}

\textbf{Measurement outcome} & \textbf{Expression} \\

\hline

00 & \alpha |0\rangle + \beta|1\rangle \\

01 & \alpha |1\rangle + \beta|0\rangle \\

10 & \alpha |0\rangle - \beta|1\rangle \\

11 & \alpha |1\rangle - \beta|0\rangle \\

\end{array}

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Nikita Sokolsky's avatar

Thanks, you're 100% correct - and that was my first thought too. You can get a very rudimentary table working, but it doesn't load correctly on mobile devices. If Substack had full support for all Latex tags, that would be even more perfect for minimalistic tables.

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Clare Heal's avatar

Thanks for this. I was searching for a solution and this came up! I didn't even know about Datawrapper - what a great resource. Appreciate you taking the time to explain.

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Michael Walsh's avatar

wonderful find. Thank you

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Shine ☼'s avatar

There actually is an article on the Substack support page by the way:

https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/15722290158100-How-do-I-embed-Datawrapper-charts-in-a-Substack-post

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Nikita Sokolsky's avatar

Hey! Yes, they don’t hide it per se, but I find it weird that there’s no “insert table”/“insert chart” button in the post editor. I’m guessing they’re working on an internal solution and don’t want to be coupled too strongly to Datawrapper, so it’s neither hidden nor promoted too strongly.

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Shine ☼'s avatar

Hi Nikita! Great points. I hope you're right, it would be great to have some tables to work with!

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Shine ☼'s avatar

Really helpful, thank you!

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Abhijeet's avatar

Thanks a lot for sharing this. I was just looking for this only. I appreciate your post.

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Chris Lakin's avatar

tried to insert a table with datawrapper and substack keeps erroring :/

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Nikita Sokolsky's avatar

Is this on Chrome? If not Chrome - try doing it in Chrome. If still fails, ensure it's updated. If updated or still fails, try incognito mode -- or open the dev console to clear cookies.

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Chris Lakin's avatar

Latest Brfave. Hmmm oh well

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The Ghost's avatar

Has anyone figured out how to insert a table and have within that table clickable links?

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Nikita Sokolsky's avatar

I did not -- if you do, let me know!

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James | Slack Capital's avatar

Is Datawrapper the only app that can Embed tables into Susbtack?

The free version is limited

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Nikita Sokolsky's avatar

As of Apr 2025 - yes, only one

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Parul Singh's avatar

Very helpful explainer on how to use Datawrapper for gorgeous charts. Great for info nerds like me.

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Abigail Thomas's avatar

Thanks so much, super helpful for a substack newbie. I followed your steps above but it didn’t actually show the chart in my substack post, only showed the link through to data wrapper - any idea what I’m doing wrong?

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Nikita Sokolsky's avatar

It only works on Desktop. If you're already on Desktop, try a different browser.

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Chris Lakin's avatar

oh cool! do we know a list of all substack embeds?

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Nikita Sokolsky's avatar

I've added an update to this post listing all the "secret" embeds (not actually secret, just scattered across their documentation)

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Vitta's avatar

I'm also a fan of Datawrapper, but I'm running into an issue where my charts and tables aren't updating correctly in the Substack app. They look fine in the browser, but the app seems to be showing older versions.

Have you experienced this at all?

Here's a link to my page so you can see what I mean: https://vittainsight.substack.com/p/vitta-100k-portfolio

Any insights would be greatly appreciated!"

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Nikita Sokolsky's avatar

Its paywalled

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Vitta's avatar

Got it! Please subscribe, and I'll grant you access. Thanks for responding!

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Nikita Sokolsky's avatar

Sorry can’t do that. If you remove paywall I’ll take a look but I won’t subscribe

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Vitta's avatar

No problem at all! I really appreciate you taking the time to check it out. I've made this page public so you can review it. Thanks again! https://vittainsight.substack.com/p/vitta-100k-investment-journey

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Nikita Sokolsky's avatar

Ok so the app does convert the charts into images - and I think that’s why they’re not being updated. I’m guessing you’ll have to clone and insert new tables every single time you make a change to get them to update inside the app.

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Vitta's avatar

Appreciate your inputs!

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Crianza Digital's avatar

¡Me funcionó! Gracias.

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